when there was a cost restriction, as the Green Revolution can increase the yield by of concentrated working. Additionally, it can be considered that the laborer's income was increased by greater annual working opportunities through year round harvesting. It can be said that the Green Revolution contributed to bringing a standardization to earnings potential through expansion of labor demand which gave a working opportunity to landless workers in the rural areas, and itinerant workers from depressed areas and also equalization of income. (14)
Furthermore, although the Green Revolution was difficult to introduce to areas with poor irrigation, it indicated some useful points to ease the low income problems of the impoverished class by easing the income differences between areas and reducing the sales price of rice by improving distribution to the non-agricultural workers, or to farmers producing crops other than rice in those areas.
Although the Green Revolution has a different effect on different classes of farmers depending on the conditions of the rural area, the cultivated area of each farmer and the family structure, when we look at the whole picture, it is thought that the possibility of the Green Revolution increasing the social unfairness further in the rural areas is small from the mid and long-term view points.
3. Future Prospects and Issues for the Green Revolution
As previously described, it can be said that the Green Revolution was an agricultural technological reformation which prevented a serious food shortage or Malthusian crisis, without which these may have occurred, and the world-wide revolution resulting from this international cooperation, through the international technological transfer from the developed countries, and the positive reactions of governments and farmers in the developing countries, will surely be recorded as a major historical event.
In the earlier developing stage, it may destroy the customary farming village social order which has been maintained for eons. However, it can be
